Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Siemens Mobility, a German technology group specialising in rail vehicle manufacturing, is creating over 500 new jobs in production, development and administration as part of the expansion of its Munich-Allach site.
The €250 million investment includes state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies, AI-based solutions and a doubling of the site's floor space to over 100,000 m². The expansion is scheduled for completion by 2028, with service capacity tripling by 2026. The new jobs will be created primarily in technical areas as well as in software and data analysis. Siemens Mobility will bundle management, development and service at the site in the future.
Politicians and the city welcome the investment as a boost to the high-tech location, and there are no known conflicts with employee representatives.
Siemens Mobility currently employs around 2,000 people in Allach, and this figure will rise to over 2,500 in the future.
Siemens Mobility last expanded production in Spain in 2023 Siemens Mobility 2023 - ESand in Hungary in 2021 Siemens Mobility 2021 - HU.
Eurofound (2025), Siemens Mobility, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 203103, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203103.
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